January 2022 • Macworld 97your migration. You can use Migration
Assistant to transfer between the
two machines either while both are
booted into macOS, or if you’re
starting up the new machine fresh
or after having erased the drive and
installed macOS from scratch.
If you want to use Time Machine for
the migration, be sure after deleting
files to select the Time Machine menu
in the system menu bar and choose
Back Up Now. This doesn’t delete
the files you’ve removed from your
Mac from the Time Machine backup
immediately (fave.co/3k3n6pk).
That will happen in time. But it does
immediately create a new snapshot
with the just the current, reduced set
of files that you can use to migrate to
a new Mac.
HOW TO MAKE MACOS
APPS AVAILABLE TO A
SINGLE USER INSTEAD
OF ALL USERS
During the pandemic, many people
have found themselves sharing their
Macs with family members and room-
mates. In that situation, you may not
want every app that you install to be
available to everyone who uses the
same Mac. There’s a folder within your
account that holds apps only you can
run: instead of the main /Applications
folder at the top level of your start-
up volume, it’s ~/Applications
(technically, /Users/short-account-
name/Applications).
Some apps offer a way to control
how broadly they are installed,
providing options during installation
that read something like ‘install for
all users of this computer’ and ‘install
for this user only’ (the language may
vary by installer).
When installing an app from a
disk image or that’s downloaded as a
compressed file, you can copy it right
to your personal apps folder. Choose
Go > Go to Folder in the Finder and
paste ~/Applications into it, and then
click Go (see 1. overleaf). Now, just
drag the app into that folder.
However, if you’re installing through
another method that places apps by
default into the main Applications
folder, including Mac App Store
downloads, follow these steps.- Open /Applications, either via Go to
Folder, or by opening the main level of
your drive in the Finder and double-
clicking the Applications folder. - Open a separate window with your
app folder via the method noted
above or navigating in the Finder
through Users > full account name
Applications.